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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 198075, member: 4552&quot;]We have a TV station here that plays all the old type programs such as Perry Mason. I tape them and watch them when I get time. The one today would have made all coin collectors sick or jsut bust out laughing. The entire story was about a coin dealer trying to sell a coin. The coin in the story was a 1861 Orleans Mint Sitting liberty Confederate half Dollar. Per the story on the show there were only 4 made and this is one of them and the owner was trying to sell it for $50,000. The fact that there was only 4 made is true. Remember that these shows were made in the 1950&#039;s. Eveyone involved in the story handled this coin with thier bare hands. The private detective, Paul Drake, actually carried it in his pocket. At a restaurant he accidently paid for a pack of cigaretts with that coin. Luckily the seller gave it back to him thinking it was a fake coin. Later Paul Drake was standing on a corner flipping that coin as if it was a flipping coin. There was naturally a murder in the story and the coin was the reason. During the program Perry Mason interviewed a well known, super duper coin collector that handed him a 1913 Liverty Head Nickel. Also, bare coin, bare hands by both. Other valuable coins during the show were attempted to be stood on the edge because the real ones would stand and counterfeits would fall over. <b>It gets better</b>. During the trial Perry Mason handed the confederate half to the coin expert on the stand and asked him to examine it. Then Perry Mason asked the judge to have it entered as an exhibit of the trial and have the baliff mark it as such. The Balliff took the coin and so marked it for an exhibit. All this again was done with bare hands, bare coins. I couldn&#039;t see what the Balliff used to mark the coin but that really got me the most of this whole story. Wonder if he used a metal scribber. I&nbsp; really wonder if whoever wrote that story knew anything about coin collecting at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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